Netflix Adds Two More ‘Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya’ Anime Seasons Streaming

Netflix Adds Two More ‘Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya’ Anime Seasons Streaming

The original Saint Seiya has come on board Netflix for streaming previously with the first four seasons being released throughout the fall of last year. This run is interesting as it’s bringing us the original series but have given it a new dub by the CG series dub cast. The additional seasons have gone live on the service as season 5 with episodes 74 through 98 and season 6 with episodes 99 through 114.

Saint Seiya is a big property for the studio with over 250 TV episodes and six animated films that has generated over a billion in revenue since it kicked off back in 1986. The manga from Masami Kurumada has over 35 million copies sold to date.

The original Saint Seiya manga from Masami Kurumada that ran from 1986 to 1990 and Viz Media has all twenty-eight volumes released in North America in print and digital form. With a lot of anime adaptations and related works over the years, this is the core property to get into and savor.

Plot concept: In Greek mythology, Athena, the daughter of Zeus, was born in full armor. By birthright the goddess of battle, she did not believe in conquest, and only fought defensive wars. Her battles with bloodthirsty gods and giants shook the very earth and seemed to last forever. On the battlefield, there were a group of youths that always surrounded and protected the goddess: the Knights of Athena! Flash forward to modern-day Greece: two Japanese tourists are shocked to see a mansized meteorite crash to the earth before them. It turns out to be young Seiya. Seiya must train harder than ever if he is to survive his match with the brutal Cassios! Whoever wins will receive the greatest prize known to man: the incredibly powerful Pegasus Cloth!

Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.